Gov. Rick Perry, taking flak from social conservatives and a potential rival in the GOP presidential contest, took a step back from his laissez-faire approach to New York’s gay marriage law on Thursday.

In now-famous remarks in Aspen last week, Perry said he had no problem with New York passing a law legalizing same sex marriages.

“Our friends in New York, six weeks ago, passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex,” Perry said. “Well you know what, that’s New York and that’s their business, and that’s fine with ...

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Comments (18)

Another flip flop. He was a Democrat, now he's a Republican. He was a Methodist, now he's an evangelical. He wanted to secede, now he wants to be president. He wanted states' rights, now he wants constitutional amendments.

All ya'll do is bitch about him, why don't you go and run for Governor or better yet President and then maybe we will see you dancing, flip floping and if your lucky, MAYBE he'll go to church of YOUR choice!! SHUT UP OR DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THINGS DIFFERENT!!!!

Referring to states right for Same-Sex Marriage is their way of saying we have a bigoted law on the books and only the feds can make us take it away and we don't want that even though it is costing us MILLIONS in court fees, loss of revenue, and pr to deal with the poor people who just want their equality that we don't think they deserve because it's against the bible, like shellfish, polyester, women's rights, marriage not equating to slavery for women, etc.

Perry has more gay issues than just marriage. Politico was onto something with their recent article on Perry's gay issue. I'm going to enjoy the national media tearing him a new one. The real Rick Perry is now coming out of the closet.

Um... you're not keeping someone else from forcing marriage on you (what, like there are going to be shotgun gay marriages for everyone?) You're stopping someone *else* from marrying someone they love... like you can do without even thinking about it.

I will put on my surprised face... Perry cannot hide his bigotry behind a veil of States Rights or any other argument... He is openly selling his hate and spew for votes... Not very "Christian" in my opinion...